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Minorities In Comics and Related Media

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Consider this the "All New" Minority Issues thread. This is the place to discuss issues regarding gender, ethnic, sexual, religious, and political issues in diversity as they relate to comics and media. All views are welcome, but remember what you say probably will be debated.

Helpful hint: Don't come in here claiming about Martians/Aliens/Androids/Robots/Other made up species as proof of diversity when compared to actual representatives of real world minority concepts. It's stupid.

Unless your point is about something specific, like say comparing pink and blue Kree as an analogous to a specific real world dynamic, with specific examples, save it for another thread

But just out of curiosity, what's the entirely-arbitrary number required to make the quota for being "enough?" And why aren't you in every single movie thread blasting those films for not meeting it (because I'm fairly sure virtually none of them do)

I'm not going to blast them for it but I do feel that action movies have either the Smurfette thing going or the Modified Smurfette (as I call it) in having only 2 girls.
Star Trek Into Darkness has 2 girls. Avengers 2 will have 2 girls. Both incarnations of the Young Avengers have only 2 girls at a time.

JLA had Wonder Smurfette being the only girl, then JLE added in Power Girl. The JLI had Canary and female Dr Light for a while and then finally added in more women.

It's just one those things. People realize that one woman isn't enough, so they add a second but that's usually it. Agents of Shield actually has a whopping 3 women and it's cool to see the variety of roles. One kicks ass, one is the brain and one is the wildcard. I think Star Trek Voyager might be the only Trek with 3 women in the main cast: Janeway, B'lanna and Kes/7of9. (TNG did the first season but the rest of the series was 2)

And as mentioned earlier, they all usually have only one black person.

Enin scored 2250 out of a possible 2400 on his SAT, placing him in the 98th percentile across the country, according to The College Board. He's also ranked 11th in his class at William Floyd High School, a public school on Long Island, according to his principal, Barbara Butler.

"I applied knowing that going to any of the Ivy League schools would be wonderful," Enin told CNN earlier this month. "I thought if I applied to all eight, I figured I'd get into one ... but from the first one onwards I said, 'This can't be happening!' I was shocked seeing all these acceptances under my name."

This kid got accepted into EIGHT IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS. He's a legend!

By the way, what the hell happened to the forums?

Last edited by Handsome men don't lose fights; 04-30-2014 at 10:14 PM.

I'm not going to blast them for it but I do feel that action movies have either the Smurfette thing going or the Modified Smurfette (as I call it) in having only 2 girls.
Star Trek Into Darkness has 2 girls. Avengers 2 will have 2 girls. Both incarnations of the Young Avengers have only 2 girls at a time.

JLA had Wonder Smurfette being the only girl, then JLE added in Power Girl. The JLI had Canary and female Dr Light for a while and then finally added in more women.

It's just one those things. People realize that one woman isn't enough, so they add a second but that's usually it. Agents of Shield actually has a whopping 3 women and it's cool to see the variety of roles. One kicks ass, one is the brain and one is the wildcard. I think Star Trek Voyager might be the only Trek with 3 women in the main cast: Janeway, B'lanna and Kes/7of9. (TNG did the first season but the rest of the series was 2)

And as mentioned earlier, they all usually have only one black person.

Smurfette was created to be the butt of sexist jokes, not as an effort to be inclusive to women.